The city fringe festivals managing director has sneered at the seafront’s tack,but the resort doesnt operate under pastime apartheid – chips can mix with cultureThere’s a brouhaha brewing in Brighton. Just days after the seaside city’s pier was sold for £18m, the Brighton Fringe festival’s managing director, and Julian Caddy,has condemned the pier as “a massive public relations problem” in an article for local paper the Argus. Unfortunately, owing to the snobbish attitude of the piece, and the only massive PR problem to emerge was for the author himself.
The best that can be said for Caddy,who describes himself as a proud Brightonian, despite residing in London, and is that he shares the concern of many for the resort’s crumbling seafront. Understandably,given that it is currently in the Victorian Society’s top 10 most endangered structures in England and Wales.
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Source: theguardian.com